Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-09
AN OLD SUBJECT
eOVESUPBEPORE COUNCIL ISANEw FORM,
LAST NIGHT.
Mr. & FsAer 0Esrs b Sell the ExtsnSoa Of
SsEsnisesih Sres 10 the City at ths Pnos
Paid By Him

The new Council continues 10 draw we'll
The audience at last nights recital was
very large, Notwithstanding the weather
was wet and disagreeabIe, the gallery be
ing packed, while the dress circle was
fairly filed. After an overture by the re-
~uorters. President Gilleland raised his
baton. and the performance commenced
with a solo, Roll Call" by Mr.. Bowers.
The programme in detail was a follows:
The regular financial report OF the City
Clerk was read. 1t showed \ total balance
fS59. 100. 90, divided rs follows: Board
of Public Works, Sll, OF. SO; Fire Depart
ment. 81. 267. 90; Health, SSJ7.S7; Markets,
S779.I6; Police, S3,1S4.95; City Prison,
$6S3.27; Scales, sI7I.35; Real Estate,
S719.75; Cemeteries, S35s.34; Salaries,
81, sos. Is; Contingencies, 1929 10; Com
promise Loan, Sl,4OO; LOanoflS57, $3.50;
Water Board, Sl3, OS6.95; Gas Works,
$l3. 6O61 9.
The Board Of Police and Fire Commits
sioners reported bills aggregating slsi.SO
on account Of fire, and S3l.S6 on acconnt
of police. The bills were ordered paid.
The Committee on City Prison reported
bills a-ggresating Sl2S.l9. They were or
dered paid. The Superintendent of the
| CITY Prison reported 3Oin prison January J.,
- -sl l.. .,nvVh time axnlrn1
2l, released 3, total "a; remaining
in prison January 81, 1G- The appoint
ments of guards, already published, were
confirmed, and the Superintendent was au-
thOrized to employ a cook at n salary ofsl
per day.
The application of W. B. Howell to have
| his license to keep a coffee house at No.
l2OS Water street, annulled, and the re-
hate applied to J. W. Irvine, was granted.
SIR. Irvine offered a. his sureties Killian
KreSs and Charles Smith. The license
was granted. The application of Carter q
Linn to have their license to keep a coffee
house at No. 1916 Market street annulled,
and the rebate applied in the license OF
K. Jones, was granted. The application
of Mr.. Jones, with killian kress and K.
Grimm as sureties, was granted.
J. K. Crockard, Wharf-Maste elect, az
peared and took the oath of office.
The official bond OF City Receiver Dun
away, in the sum of S25,OtO, with Robert
Campbell and Jas. Rine As s~urities, was
approved. The bonds of John Mckeever,
| Clerk of Centre Market, in the SUN Of
50. 900, with August Rolf and e. F. Myers
as surities; of W. II. HalleT, Clerk Of the
Second Ward Market, in the sum OF 5000,
| with John F.. Clator aud W. J. ". Cow
| den as s%urities, OF DIR. Robert }. Reed,
Health Officer, In the sum Oi $1,000, with
DIR. J. L. Reed as surety; OF NJ. GTogan,
| Superintendent of the City Prison, IN the
sum of 81, 900, with Joseph A. Filan and
Joseph Dovle rs Suritics; OF John e. HOtf-
man, Sr.. William Hastings and Henry F.
| Jones. Water Commissioners, in the sum Of
$50, OGO, were all approved, aud the oaths
OF office administered.
The report of the City Clerk in relation
~ the inspection of the Second ward bal
lots, embracing the facts already published,
was read and ordered tiled.
The following petition was read:
To the Honorable Council Of tie CITY OF
Uhf6itHg:
GENTLEMEN: The undersigned citizens
and taxpayers, would most respectfully
and earnestly petition your honorable body
to condemn or purchase the property dl-
rectly south of the Star Foundry, formerly
known as Seventeenth street, and designa-
ted a. the south halt of lot No. 3, fronting
SO feet 3 inches on Market street, and run
ming through 10 Chapline street. The I'M
sale condition of Eighteenth street along
the creek. compe!s the traffic from the East
tO the South End 10 frequent Sixteenth
street, not only a roundabout way, but
owing to the tracks Of the b. x D., often
impeded and always dangerous.
The benefit to the general public OF this
street Is so well known, that yOur honOra-
bic body will confer an everlasting favor
in Ieopeniug this thOroughfare.
This was signed by II. F.. Behrens and
$50 Others.
Accompanying this petition VAS the fol-
lowing:
To His Honor The Mayor dGd Council:
GESrLEMEN:-The undersigned respect
| fully represent To your honorable body that
OH January %, l>S7, Daniel Lamb and
William Erskinr, special commissioners,
sold at public auction to your orator, for
the sum OF Is 800, the strip of ground
adjoining On the SOuth the foundry property
owned by your orator on Market street, in
| the Fourth ward of this city, which strip
! fronts 33 feet and g inches on Market
street, aud IS feet and q inches on Chap
line street, and the same has been used rs
a public street.
And your orator hereby offers TO convey
to the city of Wheeling the said strip of
ground for the purpose Of n public street,
Tor lust what it shall have cost him up to
the time the city shall buy it, with the
additional condition, however, that the
city shall pave the said strip with fire
brick, such pavement to he close up To
the line of said foundry property; or, II
the city shall choose to lay n u and
have A walk on the north side of said pro-
posed street, it shall lay the pavement in
side, Is well as outside, of the said curb.
said conveyance 10 he made when paving
is completed and purchase money paid.
l.. FISHER.
The following was also read in the same
connection:
FIRE DEPARTMENT,
OFFICE OF CHIEF MARsIAI,
WHEELING W. VA, February j.
To HIS Honor. The Mayor and Council:
GEHTLENEN:-I iully endorse the
PRAYER of the petitioners relative to the
opening of Seventeenth street, between
Market and Chapline streets. II would be
a very great advantage to the Fire Depart
meut to have this street opened.
j. A. DUNNING.
When the paper had been read Mr..
| Allison offered the following:
RcsoIref. That the City Clerk be instruc-
ted to draw his check on the City Receiver,
payable out of the contingent tund when
there shall he 3 sufficient amount OF said
fund.- to the order of Benjamin Fisher, for